, while her long neck was protected by a chevaux-de-frise of miscellaneous frilling. One would need to be learned in the fashions of those times to know how far in the rear of them Mrs. Glegg’s slate-colored silk gown must have been; but from certain constellations of small yellow spots upon it,Nikita Kucherov Tröjor, and a mouldy odor about it suggestive of a damp clothes-chest, it was probable that it belonged to a stratum of garments just old enough to have come recently into wear.
Mrs. Glegg held her large gold watch in her hand with the many-doubled chain round her fingers,Craig Hartsburg Tröjor, and observed to Mrs. Tulliver, who had just returned from a visit to the kitchen,Kvinnor Outerwear, that whatever it might be by other people’s clocks and watches, it was gone half-past twelve by hers.
“I don’t know what ails sister Pullet,” she continued. “It used to be the way in our family for one to be as early as another — I’m sure it was so in my poor father’s time — and not for one sister to sit half an hour before the others came. But if the ways o’ the family are altered, it sha’n’t be my fault; I’ll never be the one to come into a house when all the rest are going away. I wonder at sister Deane — she used to be more like me. But if you’ll take my advice, Bessy,Jeff Petry Tröjor, you’ll put the dinner forrard a bit, sooner than put it back, because folks are late as ought to ha’ known better.”
“Oh dear, there’s no fear but what they’ll be all here in time, sister,” said Mrs. Tulliver, in her mild-peevish tone. “The dinner won’t be ready till half-past one. But if it’s long for you to wait,Ryan Murray Tröjor, let me fetch you a cheesecake and a glass o’ wine.”
“Well,Phil Esposito Tröjor, Bessy!” said Mrs. Glegg, with a bitter smile and a scarcely perceptible toss of her head, “I should ha’ thought you’d known your own sister better. I never did eat between meals, and I’m not going to begin. Not but what I hate that nonsense of having your dinner at half-past one, when you might have it at one. You was never brought up in that way, Bessy.”
“Why, Jane, what can I do? Mr. Tulliver doesn’t like his dinner before two o’clock,Canada Goose Thompson Jackor, but I put it half an hour earlier because o’ you.”
“Yes,Bobby Ryan Tröjor, yes, I know how it is with husbands — they’re for putting everything off; they’ll put the dinner off till after tea,PJS Dameklær Deniela Vest, if they’ve got wives as are weak enough to give in to such work; but it’s a pity for you,Dame Moncler Genevrier, Bessy, as you haven’t got more strength o’ mind. It’ll be well if your children don’t suffer for it. And I hope you’ve not gone and got a great dinner for us — going to expense for your sisters, as ‘ud sooner eat a crust o’ dry bread nor help to ruin you with extravagance. I wonder you don’t take pattern by your sister Deane; she’s far more sensible. And here you’ve got two children to provide for, and your husband’s spent your fortin i’ going to law, and’s likely to spend his own too. A boiled joint, as you could make broth of for the kitchen,Team Sweden Tröjor,” Mrs. Glegg added, in a tone of emphatic protest,Carter Hutton Tröjor, “and a plain pudding, w
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